All of us are born into overlapping fields of collective trauma that few ever explore through self-inquiry. We must start by looking at how it has imprinted each of us at a personal level. We will bring to light which biases, filters, and unconscious zones live inside us.
Collective trauma lives beyond a traumatizing event. We will explore how it sustains itself through time and how the past narratives are often rewritten. We will illuminate the unseen field to stop fighting with the symptoms and get to the deeper roots of the trauma.
When a group comes together to put their attention on a collective trauma then the fragmentation can be made visible and we can discover where to look. We can then work to strengthen our collective presencing.
We will look at a range of practices and tools to resource ourselves individually and collectively. When working with cold or dormant trauma it is important to be ready to actively hold space for whatever arises in the moment.
It is important to understand the quality and degree of disembodiment in ourselves and in our culture. When we face trauma a key result is a dissociative reaction. We will explore the process of embodiment and see how it plays a critical role in healing.
Together we will be with whatever is present, fully and actively. Learn to acknowledge and feel even discomfort, resistance, and pain with patience and grace. When we do this we will find we have more space, more light, more freedom.
Trauma creates incoherence, fracturing us within ourselves and separating us from others. Coherence creates a stable field or matrix, which permits resilience. And through resilience we find the capacity to stay present and related even to what challenges us.
It is through transpersonal development that we become awake to our essential unity. This also allows us to hold space for others to avoid getting absorbed by any element of the process itself. The level of transpersonal development greatly impacts the results of the healing work.
Learn more about Thomas Hübl and the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing here.